# Llama 3.1 8B is now deprecated on together.ai

**URL:** <https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/llama-3-1-8b-is-now-deprecated-on-together-ai/891040>\
**Category:** Retrieval Augmented Generation\
**Tags:** week-module-2, dl-ai-learning-platform\
**Created:** [March 30, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/llama-3-1-8b-is-now-deprecated-on-together-ai/891040 "2026-03-30T19:04:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![aremondtiedrez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/aremondtiedrez/32/126226_2.png) [@aremondtiedrez](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/aremondtiedrez)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/llama-3-1-8b-is-now-deprecated-on-together-ai/891040/1 "2026-03-30T19:04:55Z")

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The Llama 3.1 8B model, available via the together.ai API via the name “meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo” is deprecated as of March 6th, 2026 (source: [Deprecations - Together AI Docs](https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations)).

This model seems to be used throughout the course, and is certainly used in the coding assignments (such as C1M2\_Assignment, which is where I first ran into this issue).

Two questions:

- What alternative model from together.ai should we use instead?
- Will the built-in scripts supporting the assignments be changed to use a model that is not deprecated?

Thank you for your help!

Antoine

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**Author:** ![ondrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@ondrous](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/ondrous)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/llama-3-1-8b-is-now-deprecated-on-together-ai/891040/2 "2026-04-15T17:07:22Z")

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Hey Antoine, the utils.py has been recently updated to use Qwen model (Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) instead of the depreciated Llama-3.1-8B model. Can you please check if all works fine for you or something has been missed during that update?  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![lesly.zerna](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/lesly.zerna/32/47465_2.png) [@lesly.zerna](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/lesly.zerna)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/llama-3-1-8b-is-now-deprecated-on-together-ai/891040/3 "2026-07-20T22:12:54Z")

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`meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo` could help